Dr. Tina Trigg

Associate Professor of English

Office: N142
Phone: 780.465.3500 ext 8029
Email: tina.trigg@kingsu.ca

Education

PhD, University of Ottawa (2003)
MA, Lakehead University (1996)
Honours BA, Lakehead University (1994)

Research Interests

● Literature and psychology
● Margaret Atwood
● Disability studies
● Reader-response
● Madness

Current Research Projects

● Madness in Margaret Atwood’s novel canon
● Reader-Involvement Strategies for the Down Syndrome Population
● Pedagogical Approaches to Canadian Literature

Recent Publications

“Mapping our Mental Geography: Regionalism as Pedagogical Strategy”
co-authored with Philip Mingay
in West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature (2008)

“Frans Eemil Sillanpaa”
in The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present (2008)

“A Silhouette of Madness: Reading Atwood’s Surfacing”
in Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium:
Margaret Atwood: The Open Eye (2006)

Recent Conference Papers

“The Poet at the Door of the Burned House: Reading Atwood’s Recent Collections”
at Margaret Atwood Society/ ACCUTE joint panel at Congress (2009)

“‘[W]e remember when we were human’: Unearthing the Human Animal in Atwood’s Poetry”
at The International Canadian Literature Symposium: The Animals in This Country (2005)

“Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood: Writers on reading and writing”
at INSCRIBE Writers Conference (2005)

Courses I Teach

ENGL 204 - Reading to Know, Writing to be Known: An Introduction to Literature I
ENGL 205 - Reading to Know, Writing to be Known: An Introduction to Literature II
ENGL 327 - Between Science And Fiction: The Intersection of Psychology and Literature
ENGL 370 - Carving out a Nation: Canadian Literature Pre- 1970
ENGL 371 - Mapping our Mental Geography: Canadian Literature Post- 1970
ENGL 385 - North American Short Stories: Bite-Sized Reading
ENGL 405 - Unpacking the Text: 20th-Century Literary Theory
ENGL 495 - Senior English Seminar

Dr. Tina Trigg

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